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- From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
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- Subject: Re: Things They Say (nearly 5) or possibly what's the word?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.204557.63137@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:45:57 MDT
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- In article <1993Jan24.064535.819@reed.edu>, cconell@reed.edu (Carol
- Conell) writes:
- > This was more accurately a puzzling than a cute thing.
- > This evening while we were cuddling, my daughter suddenly said
- > "Nothing is real!"
- > [. . .]
- > I assume there's a word--surely not "real" for what she was
- > describing and would love to have it to offer next time this
- > comes up. But what is it?
-
- (dredging up philosophy background) Necessary, I think. A
- "necessary" thing exists in and of itself. Other things are
- "contingent;" that is, their existence requires a "necessary" being.
- Of course, someone will probably post a correction to this, but in my
- defense I wish to point out that it's been several years w/o practice.
-
- You might want to steer your daughter to some Augustine, or to
- Sartre for a different viewpoint :-)
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